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This week let’s write a poem with the words avoid, court and slow in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below.
This week let’s write a poem about falling in love. Yesterday the Living Poetry Book Club met to discuss Carol Ann Duffy‘s T. S. Eliot Prize winning collection Rapture. There was something to love in just about every poem but we spent a lot of time on the first one which I’ll link to, You. … Continue reading
Enjoy tonight’s full moon. Read her the poem you wrote and posted in the comments below.
For this fifth Monday of September, I’m offering a musical prompt. Have a listen to this twelve minute video, turn the notes into words and post your poem in the comment below.
In about seven hours, the September equinox occurs so let’s write a poem to celebrate. If you’re in the Southern hemisphere, spring arrives. For those of us in the North, autumn is here. Everyone can write about this moment of balance when days and nights are equal and we’re spinning in the same plane as … Continue reading
This week let’s write a poem with the words climax, leg and quite in it. This is another of those prompts where I randomly choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems in the comments below.
This week let’s write an excuse poem. Whether justifying your own poor choices or attempting to explain the actions of another, describe the extenuating circumstances and mitigating evidence, real or hypothesized, anything to shift the blame. You have no excuse for not posting a poem in the comments below.
Get to work and post a poem in the comments below.
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